Last week, @pod2g proved in a video demo that it was possible to untether an iOS device running iOS 5.0. However, at the time we were not sure whether the same exploit would be able to liberate iOS 5.0.1, also.

The news means that iPhone 4 owners looking to jailbreak their handset once a solution is available can safely update to iOS 5.0.1. In the past, minor updates such as this have often been easily jailbroken – the larger, major updates, however, can prove to be problematic for iOS hackers.